Gas Industry Greets Obama With His Own Words

The Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York is greeting President Obama’s visit to Albany today with this postcard, using the president’s own words in support of natural-gas drilling.

The president in his State of the Union address that expanded natural gas development “will create jobs and power trucks and factories that are cleaner and cheaper, proving that we don’t have to choose between our environment and our economy.”

He’s visiting New York, where the controversial hydraulic fracturing is on hold until the state Department of Environmental Conservation finishes its four-year review of the drilling practice. So far, Gov. Andrew Cuomo hasn’t come out in support of the drilling, saying he will wait until DEC finishes its study.